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"The ideal reasoner, he remarked, would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which would follow from it."
Arthur Conan Doyle
"The ideal reasoner, he remarked, would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which would follow from it."
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"Even if we encounter some shameful events in the past, we shouldn't avoid or hide them."
Moo-hyum Roh
"Even if we encounter some shameful events in the past, we shouldn't avoid or hide them."
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"Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events."
Adrienne Rich
"Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events."
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"None of us know all the potentialities that slumber in the spirit of the population, or all the ways in which that population can surprise us when there is the right interplay of events."
Vaclav Havel
"None of us know all the potentialities that slumber in the spirit of the population, or all the ways in which that population can surprise us when there is the right interplay of events."
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"Rossi was the first to describe another system working with valves in parallel; it has the advantage that it can easily be extended to coincidences between more than two events, and is therefore predominantly used today."
Walther Bothe
"Rossi was the first to describe another system working with valves in parallel; it has the advantage that it can easily be extended to coincidences between more than two events, and is therefore predominantly used today."
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"It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence."
John Dryden
"It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence."
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"Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events."
Robert A. Heinlein
"Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events."
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"Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help."
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
"Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help."
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"Tim sends me a fairly ambitious workup in notebook form noting the passages we're going to cover and the chronology of the biblical events, and his commentaries on those things he's read and written."
Jerry B. Jenkins
"Tim sends me a fairly ambitious workup in notebook form noting the passages we're going to cover and the chronology of the biblical events, and his commentaries on those things he's read and written."
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"Dreaming or awake, we perceive only events that have meaning to us."
Jane Roberts
"Dreaming or awake, we perceive only events that have meaning to us."
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"National Standards was not a narrative of past events but was leftwing revisionism and Political Correctness."
Phyllis Schlafly
"National Standards was not a narrative of past events but was leftwing revisionism and Political Correctness."
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"The SS, as such, behaved no more criminally than any other social groups would behave when taking part in political events."
Hans Frank
"The SS, as such, behaved no more criminally than any other social groups would behave when taking part in political events."
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"If coming events are said to cast their shadows before, past events cannot fall to leave their impress behind them."
H. P. Blavatsky
"If coming events are said to cast their shadows before, past events cannot fall to leave their impress behind them."
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"There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go."
Richard Bach
"There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go."
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"Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter."
William Ralph Inge
"Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter."
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"The second advantage claimed for naturalism is that it is equivalent to rationality, because it assumes a model of reality in which all events are in principle accessible to scientific investigation."
Phillip E. Johnson
"The second advantage claimed for naturalism is that it is equivalent to rationality, because it assumes a model of reality in which all events are in principle accessible to scientific investigation."
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"And now the sequence of events in no particular order."
Dan Rather
"And now the sequence of events in no particular order."
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"A situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which are absolutely independent of each other, and if it can be interpreted in two quite different meanings."
Henri Bergson
"A situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which are absolutely independent of each other, and if it can be interpreted in two quite different meanings."
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"We are busy planning the launch of the channel. I am busy planning all kinds of events that go on the channel without me. I have started producing a sound for the channel."
Howard Stern
"We are busy planning the launch of the channel. I am busy planning all kinds of events that go on the channel without me. I have started producing a sound for the channel."
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"Mental events, it is said, are not passive happenings but the acts of a subject."
Hermann Ebbinghaus
"Mental events, it is said, are not passive happenings but the acts of a subject."
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"Fiction is about intimacy with characters, events, places."
Robert Morgan
"Fiction is about intimacy with characters, events, places."
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"Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity."
Russell Baker
"Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity."
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"But the prospects of designing chemical plants for industrial scale chemical processes seemed far less interesting than the chemical events that occur in biological systems."
Paul Berg
"But the prospects of designing chemical plants for industrial scale chemical processes seemed far less interesting than the chemical events that occur in biological systems."
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"That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future."
Anatole France
"That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future."
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"I have always been honest about my recollection of events."
David Blunkett
"I have always been honest about my recollection of events."
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"It is extremely dangerous to talk about limits or borders. It is vital, instead, that we remain completely open, that we are always involved, and that we aim to contribute personally in social events."
Dario Fo
"It is extremely dangerous to talk about limits or borders. It is vital, instead, that we remain completely open, that we are always involved, and that we aim to contribute personally in social events."
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"I've done a lot of Super Bowls and appeared in a lot of big, big events and places and the Masters and what have you, but there was nothing as intimidating as speaking with Billy Graham."
Pat Summerall
"I've done a lot of Super Bowls and appeared in a lot of big, big events and places and the Masters and what have you, but there was nothing as intimidating as speaking with Billy Graham."
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"One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable."
Salman Rushdie
"One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable."
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"I rope steers in team roping events. There's a header and a heeler on a roping team, and I'm the heeler."
Wilford Brimley
"I rope steers in team roping events. There's a header and a heeler on a roping team, and I'm the heeler."
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"By a museum, I assume you mean an institution dedicated to the events of Sept. 11 and the aftermath. If that is done with sensitivity, I think it would be most appropriate."
David Rockefeller
"By a museum, I assume you mean an institution dedicated to the events of Sept. 11 and the aftermath. If that is done with sensitivity, I think it would be most appropriate."
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"In the following pages I have endeavoured to describe all that appeared to me most important and interesting among the events and the scenes that came under my notice during my sojourn in the interior of Africa."
John H. Speke
"In the following pages I have endeavoured to describe all that appeared to me most important and interesting among the events and the scenes that came under my notice during my sojourn in the interior of Africa."
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"The wonderful thing about television is the immediate impact of pictures of current events."
Will McDonough
"The wonderful thing about television is the immediate impact of pictures of current events."
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"Headlines twice the size of the events."
John Galsworthy
"Headlines twice the size of the events."
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"You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events."
John Berger
"You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events."
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"I am personally saddened and stunned by the tragic events that took place in Red Lake."
Collin C. Peterson
"I am personally saddened and stunned by the tragic events that took place in Red Lake."
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"Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race."
James Earl Jones
"Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race."
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"The sixth sense is at the core of our experiences. It is what makes experiences out of events."
Henry Reed
"The sixth sense is at the core of our experiences. It is what makes experiences out of events."
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"I do have a library of events I can talk about and I always expect to find a different point of view on it so even if I talk about the same event in the same town it's fresh."
Leo Kottke
"I do have a library of events I can talk about and I always expect to find a different point of view on it so even if I talk about the same event in the same town it's fresh."
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"There's not a whole lot of events out there on television, especially in the years between Olympic Games."
Shannon Miller
"There's not a whole lot of events out there on television, especially in the years between Olympic Games."
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"Which suggests something about media and war: it's not just that events happen and the media documents and presents them. There is a third element: what the public is ready to accept, what the public wants to know."
Bruce Jackson
"Which suggests something about media and war: it's not just that events happen and the media documents and presents them. There is a third element: what the public is ready to accept, what the public wants to know."
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"Like a kick in the butt, the force of events wakes slumberous talents."
Edward Hoagland
"Like a kick in the butt, the force of events wakes slumberous talents."
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"The reporting of news has to be understood as propaganda for commodities, and events by images."
Christopher Lasch
"The reporting of news has to be understood as propaganda for commodities, and events by images."
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"I've been lucky to broadcast some great events and to broadcast the exploits of some great players."
Ernie Harwell
"I've been lucky to broadcast some great events and to broadcast the exploits of some great players."
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"But as we shall see, Roosevelt, through a combination of events and influences, fell deeper and deeper into the toils of various revolutionary operators, not because he was interested in revolution but because he was interested in votes."
John T. Flynn
"But as we shall see, Roosevelt, through a combination of events and influences, fell deeper and deeper into the toils of various revolutionary operators, not because he was interested in revolution but because he was interested in votes."
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"What you compose with is neither here nor there, you compose with words, or you compose with stone plants and trees, or you compose with events; the Sheriff's officer, or whatever."
Ian Hamilton Finlay
"What you compose with is neither here nor there, you compose with words, or you compose with stone plants and trees, or you compose with events; the Sheriff's officer, or whatever."
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"Now very often events are set up for photographers... The weddings are orchestrated about the photographers taking the picture, because if it hasn't been photographed it doesn't really exist."
Elliott Erwitt
"Now very often events are set up for photographers... The weddings are orchestrated about the photographers taking the picture, because if it hasn't been photographed it doesn't really exist."
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"For the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian."
Agnes Smedley
"For the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian."
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"I come to Fashion Week events in New York City twice a year."
Oksana Baiul
"I come to Fashion Week events in New York City twice a year."
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"To say it another way, thinking, however abstract, originates in an embodied subjectivity, at once overdetermined and permeable to contingent events."
Teresa de Lauretis
"To say it another way, thinking, however abstract, originates in an embodied subjectivity, at once overdetermined and permeable to contingent events."
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"Events alone rarely provide much guide to the future."
Walter Lord
"Events alone rarely provide much guide to the future."
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